Charles S. Sumner

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:advocatesFor civil rights
racial equality
Reconstruction policies
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:attackedOn May 22, 1856
gptkbp:birthDate January 6, 1811
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts,_United_States
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Mount_Auburn_Cemetery
gptkbp:causeOfDeath heart attack
gptkbp:deathDate March 11, 1874
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Washington,_D.C.,_United_States
gptkbp:editor American Jurist and Law Magazine
gptkbp:education gptkb:Boston_Latin_School
gptkb:Harvard_Law_School
gptkbp:enemyOf gptkb:Preston_Brooks
gptkbp:ethnicity gptkb:Anglo-American
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Free_Soil_Party
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Charles_Sumner
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Charles S. Sumner
gptkbp:knownFor The Crime Against Kansas speech
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:United_States_Senate
gptkbp:notableFor Abolitionism
anti-slavery activism
caning by Preston Brooks
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:lawyer
gptkb:public_speaker
politician
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Kansas-Nebraska_Act
slavery
gptkbp:parent gptkb:Relief_Jacob_Smith
gptkb:Charles_Pinckney_Sumner
gptkbp:party gptkb:Republican_Party
gptkb:Whig_Party
gptkb:Free_Soil_Party
gptkbp:portrait Charles_Sumner_by_Brady,_c1860-65.jpg
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Daniel_Webster
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Unitarianism
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts
gptkbp:servedAs United States Senator from Massachusetts
gptkbp:signature Charles_Sumner_signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse never married
gptkbp:successor gptkb:William_B._Washburn
gptkbp:supports gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875
gptkb:Emancipation_Proclamation
gptkbp:teacherOf gptkb:Joseph_Story
gptkbp:termEnd March 11, 1874
gptkbp:termStart April 24, 1851
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Rubaiyat_of_a_Scotch_Highball
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